Anybody have Omega frameless cabinets?
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Comments (8)The most affordable custom frameless cabinets I know of is Bridgewood Advantage series cabinets. I just designed a kitchen last week with 31 lineal feet of cabinetry 3 10' walls in a U shape with 1/3 of all the cabinets being a custom width plywood box construction, dove tail drawers, soft close rails, soft close doors, and custom pull out acessories in all the base cabinets and 36" of pantrys. The dealer cost was approx $7,500 I offered them to the customer for $11,000 all door styles are same price in framed or frameless construction. The custom series with more options and 100's of door styles is usually about 20% more Here is a link that might be useful: bridgewood website...See Morecabico or omega dynasty cabinets
Comments (5)I'm searching for a mid priced cabinet line.Thought Diamond was it, but didn't like the depth of base cabinet draws, nor did I like their top corner cabinet options. Looking through these forums I found this thread.Not sure if Dynasty "melamine" is better or worse than a standard interior wood veneer. Kraftmaid has the depth of draw,corner cabinets,door style I like, but has not been spoken of very fondly by some who have had them from Lowe's/Home Depot. Help! What to buy, what to buy. When looking on the Omega site they have this regarding the cabinet construction: Quality Inside Out Dynasty/Omega's solid wood case construction makes your cabinetry ready for a lifetime of use. But you don't have to wait a lifetime to appreciate it. Dynasty/Omega cabinets are delivered square, stable and easy to install because we start with solid, kiln-dried select hardwood frames. Unlike many cabinet manufacturers, we produce every door (even our curved doors) on site allowing us to apply the same rigorous quality standards to the doors as we give to the rest of the product....See MoreFull access Omega cabinets
Comments (8)Omega Full Access has only been out now about 3 years. I cannot fathom someone removing 3 hear old high quality cabinetry from a home for any reason whatsoever, even if it was just not their style. The fact of whether or not a framed cabinet has a butt door for double doors has nothing to do with overlay. Partial overlay would just use a T astragal (also known as a dust strip) in order to do a butt cabinet with no center stile. In lines that offer both butt cabinets and those with center stiles, the butt cabinets are always a cost upgrade. But, those are the entry level lines. Mid grade cabinet lines almost exclusively use butt cabinets up to 36" W. Wider cabinets will have an added stile for stability. Frameless cabinets, can go up to 36" as double doors. And because there is no face frame, all double door cabinets are butt doors. I used Full Access on several jobs. It's is fine quality. As with many frameless cabinets, be sure that you understand the different options for finishing the sides of the cabinets and how that impacts the width of the design....See MoreKitchen Design - Omega Dynasty Cabinetry
Comments (21)Are you able to post a layout diagram? I'm wondering about aisle clearances, especially with bar stools pulled out from the island, across from the fridge. Do you know what you are storing in the tall shallow bank of cabinets? If not... have you gone through what you need to store and identified where it goes, throughout the kitchen? Have you identified your prep area and clean-up zone? Where are trash pull out(s)? Do you have a recycling center, do you compost, how many people are in the kitchen cooking at once... I suggest more time spent on functionality at this time before finalizing cabinet choices. BTW- I highly recommend 18" deep uppers, they are wonderful for large bowl storage. You have selected wonderful cabinets and I would like to see you get the best kitchen possible:) One more idea - if you stick with the current wall, another idea might be to use lighted glass uppers all the way around. You aren't going to able to access these cabinets easily. Poorly shown here:...See More
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8 years agoAh, so this story has progressed some since early Oct. "They" is the KD. That door was shipped twice and was lost at the regional distribution center. The second one was eventually found and delivered to the KD, so we did get to see it. It was beautiful, but we discovered that a stain would not be a good choice for this particular kitchen.
luettaw - framed and frameless are equally durable depending on the quality of the original workmanship and materials, so I would expect framed and frameless Omega cabinets to be equal from that standpoint. Framed Omega vs cheap frameless overseas junk would be another story. Some people do mix framed and frameless in the same kitchen. Usually people who do that use frameless drawer lowers for the better use of space, paired with framed uppers. There are some discussions of that very thing here on GW.
We did jump ship with this KD eventually. We liked her a lot and she was helpful in many ways, but it just wasn't working. We first spoke to her in early August and told her we weren't in a burning hurry because there was other major work that needed to be done in the house before we could install a new kitchen. We did want to be ready to go when the floors and windows were done though. So August, September, and then I wrote this letter in Oct. This KD, while proficient with pencil and paper (although s-l-o-w) couldn't use the CAD program at the store. The other guy was sort of proficient, so he translated her drawings. It took her 2 or more weeks for every small change and then some more time for the CAD drawing. We knew that their distribution center about 30 miles from here was problematic following the door incidents. After us expressing more angst through Oct., she finally had a complete plan for us around the first of Nov. The Omega cabinets, if ordered that day (but she only promised to order "that week"), would take around 8 weeks to arrive at the (problematic) distribution center and then a couple more weeks to be delivered. It would be the holidays, you know. If instead we went with a Canadian company, we might shave a week off that. That's when we said we'd make other arrangements. I admit to being fairly upset by then.
We went up to Home Depot and sat down with the experienced person there. We'd had a previous good experience with HD in our other house using InnerMost, another frameless line. The HD person put our kitchen measurements in her computer, fiddled around with some minor design changes, and the majority of the work was done in 90 minutes. We came back in a few days, finished up with all the finished sides, trim, toekick covers, etc. and placed the order. BTW, it came out about $7K less than the KD and Omega with 2 more cabinets. The cabinets were promised in 6 weeks, and were delivered in 5. We may or may not have a kitchen by Christmas, but at least it's not Valentine's Day. At the moment, we're waiting for the electrician who was supposed to be here a couple of hours ago. We can't finish installing the cabs until he re-routes some wires. He was supposed to be here last week. The granite people are scheduled for tomorrow morning. Getting a little anxious here. Getting a lot anxious here.
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